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One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.

The art or occupation of a mason.

To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.

e sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.

Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher g…

Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes. Being of middle age and a mean stature. Sir. P. Sidney.

One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.

A soft tissue, occupying the center of the stem or branch of a plant; pith. Medulla oblongata. Etym: [L., oblong medulla] (Anat.), the posterior part of the brain connected with the spinal cord. It includes all the hindbrain except the cerebellum and pons, and from it a large part of the cranial nerves arise. It contro…

whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind. Sir W. Hamilton. Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics. Mrs. Browning.

That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colorless inf

A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.

The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.

o makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business. Bidding him be a good child, and mind his book. Addison.

tual culture." De Quincey. The ministerial benches, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; -- also, the persons occupying them. "Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial benches." Burke.

The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

A trade, art, or occupation. [Obs.] In youth he learned had a good mester. Chaucer.

oints, either constantly, if its motion be uniform, or in the interval of time which it occupies in passing from any given velocity to the same velocity again, if its motion be variable; -- called also the efficiency of the machine. Mosley. Rankine. -- Modulus of a system of logarithms (Math.), a number by which all t…